Spiritual Gifts: Unity in Diversity
1 Nowconcerning spiritualgifts,brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:
2 You knowthat you were Gentiles, carried away to thesedumb idols, however you were led.
3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, andno one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are diversities of gifts, butthe same Spirit.
5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same Godwho works all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profitofall:
8 for to one is giventhe word of wisdom through the Spirit, to anotherthe word of knowledge through the same Spirit,
9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to anothergifts of healings by the same Spirit,
10 to another the working of miracles, to anotherprophecy, to anotherdiscerning of spirits, to anotherdifferentkinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things,distributing to each one individuallyas He wills.
Unity and Diversity in One Body
12 Foras the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body,so alsoisChrist.
13 Forby one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—andhave all been made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.
15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?
16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?
17 If the whole bodywerean eye, wherewouldbethe hearing? If the wholewerehearing, wherewouldbethe smelling?
18 But nowGod has set the members, each one of them, in the bodyjust as He pleased.
19 And if they were all one member, wherewouldthe bodybe?
20 But now indeedtherearemany members, yet one body.
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
23 And thosemembersof the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentablepartshave greater modesty,
24 but our presentablepartshave no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to thatpartwhich lacks it,
25 that there should be no schism in the body, butthatthe members should have the same care for one another.
26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer withit;or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice withit.
27 Nowyou are the body of Christ, andmembers individually.
28 AndGod has appointed these in the church: firstapostles, secondprophets, third teachers, after thatmiracles, thengifts of healings,helps,administrations, varieties of tongues.
29 Areall apostles?Areall prophets?Areall teachers?Areall workers of miracles?
30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
31 Butearnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.